Facebook, Parse and OSX

Aug 12, 2014
#facebook,
#osx,
#parse,
#phfacebook

You want to go and authenticate against Facebook for Parse on OSX. Easy you thought as they have a great little API on Parse for iOS (any everything else for that matter). But you gasp as you see the big red box proclaiming

Facebook integration is currently only available on iOS.

Solution

The best solution I found was to use PhFacebook. I’ve made a branch of the original. The main reason being to make the expirey date available.

You must make sure that if you are submitting the Mac App Store and you have Sandbox enabled you add the following to you .entitlements file or to the Capabilities > App Sandbox > Network section